Calling the Roll of Sooner Classes
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Calling the Roll of Sooner Classes By ELAINE LARECY ford, is the only college president in Oklahoma and Oklahoma City . Mr . Jones formerly practiced and one of the few in the United States to hold in Shawnee and Tulsa. 1910 In ordering a copy of Dean Gittinger's a private pilot's license . His interest in aviation Odeal Locke, '24ba, '40ma, former Norman history of the University through Soon- has spread through the whole college. Southwest- High School teacher, has been appointed to a er Magazine, Dr. J. O. Wails, '10, stated he could ern, through his influence, has contracted with teaching position in Holdenville High School . remember that bicycles and regular bicycling cos- the Army to train aviation mechanics, and the Civil- tumes were in vogue around the campus when ian Pilot Training program there has sent many 1926 Mrs. Erncstc Brunozzi (Helen Watson, he was a student during O. U.'s salad days. Dr. graduates into the Army as instructors and combat '266a) has returned from Hawaii to ac- Wails is now director of the Nashoba Associated pilots . cept a teaching position in Hartshorne. She re- Boards of Health in Ayer, Massachusetts . Mrs. Harlan Grimes, '23-'24, and his brother, Rus- signed at Hartshorne several years ago to make Wails is the former Carrie B. Buttram, '19fa. sell Grimes, '20-'24, both of Houston, and his her home at Wailuku, on the island of Maui. have started a wildcat well on an 8,000-acre lease Mrs. John C. Conrad (Mellie Driskell, '26he) is 1915 John T. Harley, '15law, Tulsa attorney, spread near Grapeland, Texas, in Houston County . teaching vocational home economics in the school has been appointed judge of the Common The latter was formerly a geologist with the Shell at Wyandotte. Pleas Court in Tulsa by Gov. Leon C. Phillips. Oil Company . Mrs . Charles F. Giard (Isabel DeBarr, '24-'26), Mr. Harley has served as county attorney of Tulsa Norman, died August 19 in Oklahoma City, fol- County and assistant U. S. District Attorney at WAGGONER-JACKSON : Miss Lenora Wag- lowing an extended illness . Survivors include her Muskogee. During World War I, he was a lieu- goner, formerly of Frederick, was married to Mil- husband, Charles F. Giard, professor of music at tenant in the Field Artillery. Mrs. Harley is the ton J. Jackson, '24ba, Los Angeles, on August 20 the University, and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. former Mary Elizabeth Fonvielle, '24he. in Hollywood. Mrs . Jackson, an employee of the Edwin DeBarr, Norman . Jefferson Life Insurance Company for the last Robert W. Ingram, '26ba, is sports editor of 1917 Bennett Griffin, '176a, famed flier and several years, has worked in branch offices in Okla- the El Paso Herald-Post in Texas. aviation executive, was in Oklahoma City homa City, Denver and Los Angeles. Mr . Jackson, McBRIDE-STOOPS : Miss Edith L. McBride, '24- for a few days late in August, visiting friends a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, is the west '26, and Ralph C. Stoops, both of Ponca City, were and relatives . Mr. Griffin has been with the Civil coast mortgage loan inspector for the same life married in Tulsa August 8. Mrs. Stoops has taught Aeronautics Authority since 1933 . He was engaged insurance company . The couple are living near in Ponca City for several years. Mr. Stoops is an in experimental work in Washington before his Hollywood . employee of the Continental Oil Company there. appointment as director of the C.A.A. Stand- William Jones, '25law, has resigned as county S. L. Mayes, '26bs, '40m .ed, has been elected ardization Center at Houston, Texas, which trains judge of Pittsburg County to go into private law principal of Walnut Grove School, Oklahoma City. pilots for the Ferry Command . Mr. Griffin joined practice with a firm which has offices in Hartshorne He was formerly principal of Carey Grade School the ranks of great experimental pilots in 1932, there. when he and Jimmy Mattern attempted an around- Three alumni working in the Naval Ordnance the-world flight and were forced down in western Laboratory in Washington, D. C. are J. Russel Russia. Reeves, '26ms, R. Ellis Smith, '35ms, and Leroy Senator Ernest W. McFarland, '176a, of Arizona, Mortar Board Officer Britton, '42phys . Arthur Hemmendinger, assistant was in Oklahoma for several days during August, professor of physics at the University, is on leave visiting relatives and friends in Oklahoma City, for work in the same laboratory. Shawnee, Earlsboro and Seminole . Senator Mc- Farland, who was reared in Earlsboro, is a native Frances Vincent, of Oklahoma, despite the fact that he represents 1927 '27ba, Norman, died another state September 3 in Oklahoma City, after a . His home is in Florence, Arizona . week's illness . She had been a teacher in the Okla- 1918 L. B. Holland, '18eng, who has been sta- homa City school system for a number of years. tioned in Chicago with the Office of the She was a member of the American Association Petroleum Co-ordinator as engineer and materials of University Women, the Eastern Star, and the man, has been transferred to Washington for some Presbyterian Church. Survivors include her mother, special work. Mrs. Tom Vincent, of Norman, and a brother and sister. Ruth Johnson, '17-18, has been appointed a Ina Cavener, '27ba, '28ma, Sapulpa, has ac- member of the Oklahoma State Board of Embalm- cepted a position as librarian and English teacher ers . Miss Johnson, who is a sister of Walter John- son, for the seventh, eighth and ninth grades in the head of the state Public Safety Department, University School, Milwaukee, Wisconsin . is operator of a funeral establishment in Pawhuska. CUPPS-PAYA : Miss Lucretia Cupps, '26-'27, 1921 Caroline Seitz, '2lzool, administrator of was married on August 9 to Robert E. Paya, in the cafeteria in the Ponca City High Enid . Before her marriage, Mrs. Paya was em- School, took a special refresher course in hotel ployed by the Champlin Refining Company, Enid . administration at Cornell University, Ithaca, New Mr . Paya has enlisted in the Navy. York, last summer, and visited friends along the Mrs . Virginia Lee Whitwell, Norman resident way. since 1910, died in late August . She was the Phil Kramer, '21law, has resigned as member mother of two University alumni, Mrs . Clyde of the Tulsa County excise board to accept a po- Fleming (Hazel Eleanor Whitwell, '27ed), and sition in the legal department of the Shell Oil Elvis B. Whitwell, '206a, both of Norman . Company, Centralia, Illinois . Wayde H. McCallister, '216a, '38m.ed, has been 1928 Roy R. Tomkins, '28ma, Stillwater, has appointed principal of Harding Junior High School, been appointed to the National Panel of Oklahoma City. He was principal of Webster Jun- Arbitrators, an organization designed to offer the ior High School there for the last six years. services of non-partisan, non-political, disinterested advisers in industrial labor disputes. Mr. Tomkins 1922 Miss Lyndal Swofford, '226a, has been LOUISE HOHL GREVE, '32BA is director of educational extension at Oklahoma appointed acting librarian at Western Illi- Mrs. Paul Greve (Louise Hohl, '32ba), Tulsa, A. and M. College . nois State Teachers College at Macomb . She has has been appointed director of Section 7 of Ford Eleanor Barry, '286a, '39ma, Ardmore, been in the library at Macomb since 1939, having Mortar Board, women's national honor society, has accepted a position teaching social science in formerly served as librarian at Central State Teach- including colleges and universities in Oklahoma, the high school at Liberal, Kansas . ers College, Edmond . New Mexico, Louisiana, Texas and Colorado . BUCKER-HAMMONS : Announcement has been Leo C. Murray, '22bs, is teaching history and While attending the University, Mrs. Greve was made of the wedding on January 9 in Temple, directing the band and orchestra at El Reno High president one year of Associated Women Stu- Texas, of Miss Hermine Bucker, '26-'28, of Tulsa, School . dents, winner of a Dads' to Guy Hammons, of Abilene, Texas. Mr. and Day award in 1931, Mrs. Hammons member of Phi Beta Kappa honor society and are temporarily at home in Tulsa. 1923 Lloyd Van Deventer, '23, has been elected HURLEY-BUMPERS : Mrs. Ellen Bryant Hur- superintendent of schools at Tipton . For Delta Gamma sorority, and winner of a Letzeiser ley, medal. After graduation, she taught Latin and Ada, and' Uel Bumpers, '27-'28, formerly of the last eight years, he was superintendent at Ada, were married July 19 in the post chapel at Wellington. American literature for four years in Sand Springs Roswell, High School . She and Mr. Greve, New Mexico . Mrs . Bumpers attended an attorney Southeastern State College at Durant, and for the 1924 G. S. Sanders, '19-'24, president of South- for the Mid-Continent Petroleum Corporation, last five years western Institute of have a has owned and operated the East Technology, Weather- two-year-old daughter, Margaret Ann . Central Beauty College at Ada . Mr. Bumpers is SOONER MAGAZINE stationed at the Army Air Base at Roswell, where he and Mrs. Bumpers are making their home. MAYER-GLASSMAN : Miss Martha Mayer, to Oklahoma City, was married to Bernard Glassman, Fifty Years of Building Oklahoma '27-'28, also of Oklahoma City, August 8 at Mus- to kogee. Mrs. Glassman is a member of the editorial to staff of the Daily Oklahoman. Mr. Glassman is as- to sociated with the John E. Wolf Advertising Com- to pany in Oklahoma City. to J. Hamilton Green, '286a, '35m.ed, recently re- Dean Roy Gittinger's New Book 101 of 101 signed from the Ardmore school system to accept of a position teaching English in Tulsa. Helen 11 Hackett, '28he, '30ms, Norman, is assist- of The University of Oklahoma : 11 ant librarian at the post library, Fort Sill .